The Amazigh heritage tells us a story about a collective human creativity that reveals aspects of the daily preoccupations of the Amazigh man, including the various designs of jewelry, tattoos and the manufacture of carpets in Amazigh homes. In this article, we will cover the fascinating Amazigh carpet between the connotations of its symbols and its forms.
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The Amazigh carpet is characterized by many vivid and bright colors,
such as orange, yellow and red, and various geometric shapes, as well as natural materials used in its weaving, such as natural wool. Additionally, symbols that have a cultural and identity load, most notably the Amazigh letter Tifinagh, which women play a pioneering role in preserving, by employing it in decorating this carpet in a way that is not without splendor. Tattoos inspire carpets in motifs and shapes and vice versa.
These characteristics make a combination of the ancient Amazigh carpet distinct from the carpets women in other regions of the world, but the economic and social transformations that have imposed themselves on the path of their production and promotion require the adoption of development initiatives in order to preserve this authentic cultural heritage and ensure its continuity and transfer to new generations and the world. Furthermore, the Swiss researcher Bruno Barbatti issued a special book on the traditional Amazigh carpet entitled: Carpets of morocco symbols of origin and meaning, explaining its symbols in detail. Because he had been impressed by the Moroccan Amazigh carpets and its charm. His passion for research led him to conduct systematic research and look forward to the history of the Amazigh carpet and learn the connotations of its forms and colors.
Regarding Tifinagh letters were preserved in rock inscriptions for centuries, and their uses later moved to many elements of material culture, such as the carpet of henna and tattoos.The shape that adorn the Berber carpet have meanings and connotations, as this carpet was in the past a means of communication between family members, especially between women who have a great knowledge of deciphering the mysteries contained in the writings and symbols that make up this carpet.
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The carpet is manufactured thanks to the skill in choosing and harmonizing colors, to create at the end a painting with different reading expressions, expressing the life and traditions of a particular region or tribe. It is decorated with simple geometric shapes like rhombuses, triangles and rectangles, in addition to squares. And shapes derived from nature, such as the shape of waves, the sun, the moon, flowers, grains, and other shapes that symbolize animals, such as birds, which symbolize lightness, movement and freedom, the ram, which symbolizes strength, and the cow, which symbolizes hidden power.
